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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 07:45 AM
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Attention Adelphia cable customers!!!!!
I realize there is a significant movement here where a bunch of folks have already cancelled their cable. This is for the rest of you.

By now, if you're an Adelphia cable customer, you've seen the new service plans set to go into effect in November. They say it's an improvement over the previous system; if by that they mean massive price increases for more of the same crappy programming, I suppose one could possibly make that argument. By my math, I guestimate the effect of the changover is about a 18 to 20 percent price increase, pretty steep considering a deflationary economy.

I downgraded my service severely, letting them know that I'm not a happy camper, and I suggest that all of you do the same. The only reason I had the "Ultimate Advantage" package in the first place was because I got broadband internet AND all eleventy thousand channels of crap for around $100. I really couldn't see giving them an extra $25 for the same crap.

I don't like being played for a sap, and I doubt you do, either, so I have a nifty idea. After playing armchair CEO and 'downsizing' your cable, why not send Adelphia <a href=http://www.adelphia.com/contact_us">a little note</a> explaining just how pissed off you are at being asked to come up with the dough their previous management sent offshore.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 08:16 AM
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1. About 3 weeks ago I was at a yard sale......
Edited on Tue Oct-14-03 08:17 AM by Radicalliberal
...and the person happened to have bunch of old magazines in a pile.
One of them was an old cable guide with listings for the 70 cable channels. (that's all they had, back then).

Christ, there were some really cool program on almost ALL the time.
Reruns of almost every old tv show ever made.....2 blues channels featuring great guitarists.....
Reruns of WKRP....classical music....a local "unknown bands" channel and tons of other cool stuff....

Now I look at late night programming and 30 channels are showing
"The revolutionary Ronco Ice Crusher" (Only 3 payments of 19.99.....12.20 for shipping and handling)

The majority of cable has degraded into a cesspool of unwatchable garbage that screams Ripoff!, Ripoff!

Late at night (while fixing Computers), I turn on the set to have something to watch and out of 162 channels there really TRULY is absolutely nothing to watch...what a bunch of crap.
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